Fast fashion may be scorned by many, but the British public still reach for it when we need a quick sartorial fix. My allocated budget of £30 for an interview outfit including shoes did not take me far, however – ...

L’Wren Scott, the designer, former model and partner of Sir Mick Jagger, was found dead at her home in New York on Monday morning in an apparent suicide. A spokesman for Jagger told the Guardian in an email that the ...

Since appearing on the London fashion week schedule for the first time in 2013, L’Wren Scott’s presence was just starting to come into its stride – and move out from the shadow of her famous partner. The model-turned-designer, who stood ...

I like what I see in the mirror. I currently have brown hair, but I tend to swap between brown and blond, depending on how I feel. My natural colour is deep blond. My face is normal-looking: it’s quite round, with thin eyebrows, ...

When you walk into a department store, I’m the first person you see, surrounded by heavily made-up ladies (and occasionally gents) spritzing cologne, primping eyelashes, applying fatty unguents that boast sensational claims. Where once I saw skin, I now see ...

Since my love of film matches my passion for beauty, the Oscars are not to be missed. I binge on sweets and caffeine and stay up to watch the whole interminable shebang, trying to guess simultaneously which nominee will triumph and ...

You spend a week’s salary on a proper posh hair dye, at a place where they offer you cava while it develops, and then two weeks later it’s all washed off. What was glossy, chestnut, dark is now a mousy ...

The April issue of British Vogue boasts the cover everyone in publishing wanted. Newly divorced and intact from the very public court hearing of the Grillo sisters, Nigella Lawson gives the magazine an exclusive interview and poses in an altogether ...

The perfume industry is facing a major problem: maintaining constant levels of quality is crucial, but it is increasingly difficult to obtain a regular supply of all the necessary natural ingredients. Essential oils such as jasmine, rose, vetiver, ilang-ilang, iris, ...

Every so often I indulge in an act of heroic self-sacrifice and commit shoe leather and patience to a trade show. My heart sinks slightly whenever I feel it necessary to join the crowds at an exhibition, and I say ...